Welp. That was an unpleasant hour of my life spending $30 to put a freeze on my credit reports due to the truly spectacularly criminally negligent data breach on the part of equifax
But thirty bucks and a little hassle is nothing compared to the potential cost of someone stealing my identity so… I’ll take it, albeit with a bitter pill.
Glad it was so expediently handled, at the very least D:
Yeah, their websites are going down on the regular from so many people doing this, but you can get through with patience. It’s really looking like anyone who has credit history should probably do this – check out that article I linked for some explanations why. But I’d much rather have to go through the hassle of specifically lifting the freeze if I am getting a loan / credit card / whatever than having it open to anyone with my equifax-leaked information and some preapproved credit offer stolen out of my recycling
I Just did this as well. It’s terryfing the amount of data these institutions collect without our express consent.
Remember, if you put a security freeze on your accounts MAKE SURE TO KEEP THE PIN #s. You will need those to lift the freeze if you need to open a new bank account/credit card/etc.
I’m so angry about the absolutely criminal negligence involved here that I hope that company burns to the ground.
BUT IN THE MEANTIME.
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